Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson also pointed to "statistically significant" differences in academic, extra-curricular, personal, teacher, counselor and alumni ratings, as well as class rank and scores. But our Quantitative Reasoning courses have shown people that differences can be "statistically significant" yet not large enough to be meaningful. The actual differences in the ratings turn out to be approximately 0.2 points or less on five or six point scales. For example, the extracurricular rating for alumni children was 2.52, compared to 2.43 for the others (one is high on those scales). Not only are such differences insignificant but the fact is that...
...admission are encouraged to apply. Many superb athletes, when told that their chances of being admitted are poor, do not apply. Admitted student-athletes averaged 603 on the verbal SAT and 670 on the math and 92.3 in their high school grades. On the various five and six point rating scales they differed from the other group by only an average of 0.38 points. As with alumni children, while those differences are statistically significant, the magnitude does not suggest the major differences between athletes and other students that The Crimson asserts...
...Crimson over the years has made a point of reporting on the correlation between SAT scores and socioeconomic background. To rely on test scores even more than we do now would certainly lead us back toward the days when most students at Harvard and Radcliffe were rich and advantaged. We assume The Crimson would not favor such an outcome...
...artists who make other artists famous. A striking case in point, in America, was Albert Pinkham Ryder. This somewhat reclusive visionary was born in 1847; grew up in the whaling town of New Bedford, Mass.; studied in New York City; spent most of his working life there and died in 1917. As far as is known, he painted fewer than 200 works. Yet a succession of American artists has looked up to him as a sage, a holy man: the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism...
...this career move, she asked, "Are you sure? Have you considered the cut of their uniforms?" McGaughran stresses that "Betsy and I are pretty traditional homebodies. This thing with the police department was just a progression. It wasn't Gloria Steinem. She wasn't doing it to prove a point." Watson describes her anger when she was told in the early 1980s that she could not be a supervisor in an investigative division because it was "too tough a job for a woman." But she rejected the idea of filing a job- bias complaint. "My sense was that...